There becomes a measurable, yet acceptable level of environmental consequence
That level for nuclear generated electricity would be zero, considering that we have multiple other options available. If we had to choose between whale oil and nuclear, it would be a different story, but face it, between solar, wind, and reduced consumption, we simply don't need to take the risk
Wrong...
Wind and Solar are unpredictable and cannot be stored for peak times. Geothermal and Hydro tend to provide reliable power but do not provide enough supply. Wave power may contribute to this, but they are still working on engineering materials that will last in the ocean and handle the currents. That leaves Coal and Natural Gas, both of which have their own detrimental effects on the environment and risks, some of which are as bad or worse than nuclear. http://motherboard.vice.com/bl...
Modern reactor design is as safe, or safer, than natural gas and coal. Most accidents are occurring at older plants that are near their lifetime. We are in this state because of public fear and the near impossible process of bringing a new reactor online. This has slowed the development and deployment of newer, safer designs.
One of these days, we will learn how to store solar and wind energy. At that time, the other methods would quickly become obsolete. But until then, the sources of energy that we use will carry some form of inherent risk.
All our boxes at work are still on 7 and we're hoping they stay there. The big upgrade to Vista years back drove the IT people to their knees. They struggled endlessly to keep boxes that had been stable and working smooth before the upgrade to stay up and running for more than a few mere hours without locking up. When 7 became available it put everything right but we still remember how bad it was. At one time my shop had 13 machines and if 5 of them were working it was a good day.
The problem wasn't Vista. I get that to most users the problem was the OS, but that just wasn't the case. The problem was that Microsoft changed the driver model and device vendors just weren't ready with device drivers for Vista. They didn't believe Microsoft when they stated the release date for Vista and then actually met it. So, older drivers that worked with NT were not so happy with Vista. And even when vendors started releasing drivers for older hardware, they tended to be buggy. On top of that, a lot of vendors just didn't bother. If you wanted a vista capable device, you had to buy a new one.
Yes, there were also problems with users and IT departments getting used to how UAC worked, but once you turned it off those issues went away.
And the Prius came out in 2000, 3 years before the founding of Tesla. Musk realized that he would have to sell a car for lots of money to fund R&D. The only cars that sell for lots of money are performance vehicles and sports cars. Plus, they typically don't need the range of regular cars.
I'd say the risk was similar to starting a luxury yacht company, not much more. Electric motors have always been recognized at having a lot of low end torque. Its the development of high end torque that would have been a bit risky. That and finding early adopters.
This is much more useful than a Segway because when you step off, you can easily carry it, say up a flight of stairs and through the chikatetsu system (This is Japan we're talking about) carrying it in a little bag like a laptop. Later, it can be used to zip past that long boring stretch of roadside. Then you pick it up and duck into a Lawson's to do some shopping.
Stateside, you can step out of your Escalade at the mall, zip through that drab parking lot, while holding it up to deflect bullets if the need arises. Just try any of those things, in either country, with a Segway.
I wouldn't want to try to deflect bullets with it unless it was an extreme situation. You'd be better off throwing it at the shooter and getting someplace safe. My guess is that it has a Li-ion battery. I'm pretty sure that they don't react well to bullets...
Oh... and we wouldn't have Paul Blart Mall Cop 1 & 2 without the Segway... Oh wait... Yeah, you're right... it is useless... (grin)
I used to install pump controllers and POS systems a long while back. Pump controllers would only talk to the back-end computer on a separate VLAN. The primary VLAN had the POS terminals on it. The back office PC had a dial-up VPN connection back to the Home Office. The network didn't rely on the internet but on dial-up access. To affect the station network you would have to have physical access.
It wouldn't surprise me that gas stations today have internet access for real time inventory and sales management of gas, groceries, etc. This would, as the article points out, open up the site to DDOS and other standard internet attack vectors. One way to reduce this threat is to implement ACLs, only allowing traffic back to the Home Office public IP addresses. But that only defends against basic DDOS attacks. The type of hardware/software that you would need to thoroughly protect the site is prohibitively expensive.
One defense is the fact that there are so many of them. Yes, a botnet could wreck havoc on a number of stations, but hitting them all in a region, in my opinion, would be a lot harder. Granted, maybe you only need to disrupt "enough" of them.
My favorite as a kid was always Spider-man. The Amazing Spider-Man reboot was one of the better ones. At least in this reboot Peter Parker has web shooters and reformulates his web solution. The previous Spider-Man movies were okay, but the script writers painted themselves in a corner by having the web shooters being part of Peter's physiology.
My favorite Superhero movie to date is still Dark Knight with Heath Ledger as the Joker. Every time I watch it I still can't help morn his death and think about what kind of genius he could have given us in a sequel.
That being said, I am also tired of super-hero movies. The only TV series that I watch is Gotham. I have no plans on seeing Fantastic Four or Ant-Man until they come to HBO. Even then, I might end up avoiding them.
I am wondering how Batman vs Superman (March 2016) will turn out.
Most cars now have active (chipped) keys that will not let you start or sometimes even turn the key unless it sees the signal from the key. Those keys may also be necessary to put the car in neutral for towing.
Most cars have a manual method of switching to neutral. This is necessary because it simply doesn't make sense to cause thousands of dollars of damage to a car while towing simply because of an electrical problem.
Those of us in the Boston do... It wasn't called the Big Dig for nothin'... It ended up costing about $24 billion and that was just for a few tunnels and a couple of bridges. Just imagine what it would cost to move all of the parking and streets underground.
It would be kind cool if it could be done because all of the above ground streets could be torn up and turned into walkable green spaces. But it just isn't feasible today. One day, when we have totally automated construction robots, maybe. But not any time soon.
If you think installing apps from the store is confusing, try installing the exact same app from the web and the store.
I installed the Kindle app from the store and the Windows Kindle program from the web. They are two completely different apps. The one in the store is build for mobile (i.e. tablets and phones, touch menus, etc.) and the other is built as a desktop app (mouse/keyboard menus, full screen, etc.).
I would recommend that if you have a Windows tablet or touchscreen laptop, and you use touch a lot, that you get the apps from the store. They will work much better with touch.
If you don't want the widgets, prefer mouse/keyboard, and want full functionality, install the desktop application and ignore the store.
Yes the LEDs are under the computer's control. But that still doesn't make those LEDs "output devices" in the general sense of the word.
A modern keyboard is both an input and output device. At a high level its primary function is to input things into the computer; however, the USB HID communications are bi-directional communications, there is both Input and Output. The computer can set the state of LEDs and some other features of the keyboard.
In some cases, the computer can upgrade the firmware on the Keyboard which definitely requires sending output.
Yes, but each of these functions have nothing to do with reading or viewing data, they are all about changing the properties of the device itself (i.e. firmware, indicators, etc.) If this was the definition then anything with a power indicator and power button would be considered an I/O device. But that's not how we define an Output device. An I/O device is all about data, which has nothing to do with the device state.
So, by your definition a monitor is not an output device, because "in the general sense of the word, you won't be storing or sending data to another standard device" with it. OK, whatever.
Um, you're deliberately misreading his post. He was talking about the keyboard. The screen at one point was a pure output device where data is stored for the viewer, however brief. That being said, even when the test was written there were monitors with light pens that could be used as input devices, much like touch screens today.
As for keyboards, indicator lights are not considered output as they have nothing to do with reading data, they are purely an indicator function, much like a power light. If you still don't get it, check out the Wikipedia entry for an output device. They have a good explanation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Interestingly you don't mention how much harder bad weather conditions make driving for human drivers, as well. There is a reason that many more than usual accidents happen when the weather is bad, when it's snowing, late at night (sleepy drivers - never heard about a robot getting sleepy), or when the roads are bad and human drivers think they know it all and can continue at top speeds.
Actually, it always seems like many more than usual accidents happy the first two weeks of the snowy road season, and then people adjust to it.
I suspect that driverless cars would adjust quicker and you'd get better results than human drivers.
Nonetheless, the point that driverless cars need to be tested and verified in these conditions before being approved for general use is valid, though probably obvious.
It may be fairly obvious but I'm thinking that it will be a much harder problem to solve and will take longer than people think.
This is one instance where the market can really help. Insurance for these autonomous cars will be lower than manual cars, as they are in fewer accidents. That will encourage their uptake. Of course there will be a time where manual driving will be outlawed, and if you really like driving so much then, take it to the race track and don't let your hobby endanger people who are merely trying to live their lives.
When self-driving cars can negotiate in bad weather conditions (i.e. ice, snow, slush, etc.), that's when I'll buy into your future. There is a reason why Google chose relatively warm, dry areas with typically good weather. Bad weather and poor roads makes things 100x harder for self-driving cars. Not to mention the ability to handle out of ordinary conditions or events. Figure these out, then get back to me about giving up manual driving. Until then, it's a mote point....
Oh, and I forgot to mention that they need to be able to tow things, like boats... Towing is the last thing on Google's mind...
This is one instance where the market can really help. Insurance for these autonomous cars will be lower than manual cars, as they are in fewer accidents. That will encourage their uptake. Of course there will be a time where manual driving will be outlawed, and if you really like driving so much then, take it to the race track and don't let your hobby endanger people who are merely trying to live their lives.
When self-driving cars can negotiate in bad weather conditions (i.e. ice, snow, slush, etc.), that's when I'll buy into your future. There is a reason why Google chose relatively warm, dry areas with typically good weather. Bad weather and poor roads makes things 100x harder for self-driving cars. Not to mention the ability to handle out of ordinary conditions or events. Figure these out, then get back to me about giving up manual driving. Until then, it's a mote point....
Sorry, but I'm not interested. I'm a huge Commodore fanboy, but the logo isn't even in colour. If you're going to try to cash in on the trademark you bought, at least do it right. I'll stick with running VICE and UAE on my openpandora, thanks. It has a keyboard, which makes it awesome at emulating computers with keyboards.
The C64 logo might have been in color but the Commodore PET logo was not...
Yes, you could go through the trouble of setting up VPN, etc. and it would work. But VPN connections can be tricky if you don't know what you are doing.
Personally, I've been using Teamviewer (Free for private use) for remote control. They have Windows, MAC, UNIX, and mobile clients. You do have to know the password on the client that you are connecting to and I believe that you can set it to a permanent one, but I've never needed to. I just get my Dad to read the 4 or 5 digit random number back to me. I believe that you can set it up to be always-on if you buy a license.
As for monitoring your kid's Internet access, it isn't going to work. He'll quickly find out that Grandpa's computer has access to everything... (grin)
The easiest thing to do is install a monitoring program on his computer and buy a 802.11ac router for home and a router for grandpa that has built-in Parental Controls. You could then check the program logs on your kid's computer and the logs on the router.
Unless you really have your heart set on learning how to configure VPNs and understand IP networking, it's just not worth it for Remote Control and Parental Monitoring.
However, if you also plan to use the link for backups between their home and yours then it might make sense as backup services like Carbonite can be costly. In that case, the Meraki solution proposed by a previous commenter would be a good place to start.
Too many internet pages rely on Flash for video and advertisements... and,as much as we hate them, advertisements means money...
I'm not saying that progress isn't being made. Youtube dropped Flash this year and is now using HTML5 as the default for video, but that doesn't fix legacy videos. http://www.theverge.com/2015/1...
My thought is that Flash will be around for another 3 to 5 years. The quoted "18 months" is just wishful thinking....
True... but... There is usually an aisle between you and the person that you are facing. You aren't literally 12" from their face. It would be more like standing face to face on a crowded subway train for 3 to 6 hours. For most people it's exhausting enough to be that close to someone you don't know for the 15 to 20 minutes to get to your stop, let alone hours....
Plus, just imagine if your facing someone who is coughing and sneezing. Yes, you're close enough on a plane that it's still likely that you would get sick, but at least they aren't sneezing directly into your face.
I banned Powerpoint presentations. Saves huge amounts of time, and server space. I don't have figures to support it, but I strongly believe it raises moral and stops a decline in general intelligence.
(grin)
Actually, the problem isn't Powerpoint or presentations. The problem is people who do not know how to create or give good presentations.
Most boring presentations fall into the following categories:
1. a presentation that you are forced to attend but that has no direct relevance to you, your job, etc. 2. a presentation with too many details for the time slot. The Presenter speed reads the presentation 3. a presentation where the presenter just reads the presentation. There are no explanations and no expansion on what appears on the slides. You could have just read the presentation in 10 minutes and gotten the same information. 4. a presentation that has not been tailored to the audience.
If you have ever watched a Ted Talk presentation, you will see that they use Powerpoint. The difference is that you are interested in the topic, the presenter is passionate about the topic and tells a story, and the slides include just the major points, they don't go into too much detail.
Oh... and banning Powerpoint just wouldn't work... They would just use Word or, horrors, Excel.... (grin)
Maybe we should get rid of *all* formal credentials? Get rid of all licenses, and degrees, along with certs.
A drivers license does not prove you know how to drive. A teaching credential does not prove you are a competent teacher. Does a college degree prove you even know how to read?
And so on, right down the line.
Or, maybe a more intelligent way to look at is: a credential is what it is. It prove you know enough about something to pass the test. No test is ever perfect.
Tech credentials leave a lot to be desired. But, from my experience they are far superior to interview test questions. I have had interview tests from interviewers who were dead wrong. I have had interviewers ask questions that were insane. Besides, what if the interviewing does not like you? Maybe the interviewer does not like your race, gender, nationality, or age - in that case you would be sure to fail. At least certs have a certain objectivity.
A drivers license, or even the drivers test, doesn't prove that you are a good driver. But it does prove that you know the rules of the road, something that most wouldn't study unless they were forced to. I'd rather have people driving knowing the rules of the road even if they aren't the best of drivers.
What works at Google is not necessarily applicable in the rest of the world. Perhaps people with certifications tend not to succeed at Google. That does not mean that they don't succeed elsewhere. It only means they didn't succeed at Google - nothing more. In fact there are many professions where you won't even get considered for an interview without a certification.
That is soooo right... A manager at my sister's office decided to follow a process that he read about Google using. That process was to have a communal garbage can in an office area and have individual recycle bins under each desk. The theory was that having the recycle bin nearby meant that people would recycle more and only make the trip to the garbage can when they had too. The problem is that where my sister worked, they don't have a cafeteria with free food (Google does) and a lot of people bring their own food to the office for lunch. So, you can just imagine some of the smells....
Proof that what works at one company doesn't always work at another.
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There becomes a measurable, yet acceptable level of environmental consequence
That level for nuclear generated electricity would be zero, considering that we have multiple other options available. If we had to choose between whale oil and nuclear, it would be a different story, but face it, between solar, wind, and reduced consumption, we simply don't need to take the risk
Wrong...
Wind and Solar are unpredictable and cannot be stored for peak times. Geothermal and Hydro tend to provide reliable power but do not provide enough supply. Wave power may contribute to this, but they are still working on engineering materials that will last in the ocean and handle the currents. That leaves Coal and Natural Gas, both of which have their own detrimental effects on the environment and risks, some of which are as bad or worse than nuclear. http://motherboard.vice.com/bl...
Modern reactor design is as safe, or safer, than natural gas and coal. Most accidents are occurring at older plants that are near their lifetime. We are in this state because of public fear and the near impossible process of bringing a new reactor online. This has slowed the development and deployment of newer, safer designs.
One of these days, we will learn how to store solar and wind energy. At that time, the other methods would quickly become obsolete. But until then, the sources of energy that we use will carry some form of inherent risk.
All our boxes at work are still on 7 and we're hoping they stay there. The big upgrade to Vista years back drove the IT people to their knees. They struggled endlessly to keep boxes that had been stable and working smooth before the upgrade to stay up and running for more than a few mere hours without locking up. When 7 became available it put everything right but we still remember how bad it was. At one time my shop had 13 machines and if 5 of them were working it was a good day.
The problem wasn't Vista. I get that to most users the problem was the OS, but that just wasn't the case. The problem was that Microsoft changed the driver model and device vendors just weren't ready with device drivers for Vista. They didn't believe Microsoft when they stated the release date for Vista and then actually met it. So, older drivers that worked with NT were not so happy with Vista. And even when vendors started releasing drivers for older hardware, they tended to be buggy. On top of that, a lot of vendors just didn't bother. If you wanted a vista capable device, you had to buy a new one.
Yes, there were also problems with users and IT departments getting used to how UAC worked, but once you turned it off those issues went away.
Electric cars have been around since the mid-1800s.
And the Prius came out in 2000, 3 years before the founding of Tesla. Musk realized that he would have to sell a car for lots of money to fund R&D. The only cars that sell for lots of money are performance vehicles and sports cars. Plus, they typically don't need the range of regular cars.
I'd say the risk was similar to starting a luxury yacht company, not much more. Electric motors have always been recognized at having a lot of low end torque. Its the development of high end torque that would have been a bit risky. That and finding early adopters.
This is much more useful than a Segway because when you step off, you can easily carry it, say up a flight of stairs and through the chikatetsu system (This is Japan we're talking about) carrying it in a little bag like a laptop. Later, it can be used to zip past that long boring stretch of roadside. Then you pick it up and duck into a Lawson's to do some shopping.
Stateside, you can step out of your Escalade at the mall, zip through that drab parking lot, while holding it up to deflect bullets if the need arises. Just try any of those things, in either country, with a Segway.
I wouldn't want to try to deflect bullets with it unless it was an extreme situation. You'd be better off throwing it at the shooter and getting someplace safe. My guess is that it has a Li-ion battery. I'm pretty sure that they don't react well to bullets...
Oh... and we wouldn't have Paul Blart Mall Cop 1 & 2 without the Segway... Oh wait... Yeah, you're right... it is useless... (grin)
I used to install pump controllers and POS systems a long while back. Pump controllers would only talk to the back-end computer on a separate VLAN. The primary VLAN had the POS terminals on it. The back office PC had a dial-up VPN connection back to the Home Office. The network didn't rely on the internet but on dial-up access. To affect the station network you would have to have physical access.
It wouldn't surprise me that gas stations today have internet access for real time inventory and sales management of gas, groceries, etc. This would, as the article points out, open up the site to DDOS and other standard internet attack vectors. One way to reduce this threat is to implement ACLs, only allowing traffic back to the Home Office public IP addresses. But that only defends against basic DDOS attacks. The type of hardware/software that you would need to thoroughly protect the site is prohibitively expensive.
One defense is the fact that there are so many of them. Yes, a botnet could wreck havoc on a number of stations, but hitting them all in a region, in my opinion, would be a lot harder. Granted, maybe you only need to disrupt "enough" of them.
My favorite as a kid was always Spider-man. The Amazing Spider-Man reboot was one of the better ones. At least in this reboot Peter Parker has web shooters and reformulates his web solution. The previous Spider-Man movies were okay, but the script writers painted themselves in a corner by having the web shooters being part of Peter's physiology.
My favorite Superhero movie to date is still Dark Knight with Heath Ledger as the Joker. Every time I watch it I still can't help morn his death and think about what kind of genius he could have given us in a sequel.
That being said, I am also tired of super-hero movies. The only TV series that I watch is Gotham. I have no plans on seeing Fantastic Four or Ant-Man until they come to HBO. Even then, I might end up avoiding them.
I am wondering how Batman vs Superman (March 2016) will turn out.
Most cars now have active (chipped) keys that will not let you start or sometimes even turn the key unless it sees the signal from the key. Those keys may also be necessary to put the car in neutral for towing.
Most cars have a manual method of switching to neutral. This is necessary because it simply doesn't make sense to cause thousands of dollars of damage to a car while towing simply because of an electrical problem.
Those of us in the Boston do... It wasn't called the Big Dig for nothin'... It ended up costing about $24 billion and that was just for a few tunnels and a couple of bridges. Just imagine what it would cost to move all of the parking and streets underground.
It would be kind cool if it could be done because all of the above ground streets could be torn up and turned into walkable green spaces. But it just isn't feasible today. One day, when we have totally automated construction robots, maybe. But not any time soon.
If you think installing apps from the store is confusing, try installing the exact same app from the web and the store.
I installed the Kindle app from the store and the Windows Kindle program from the web. They are two completely different apps. The one in the store is build for mobile (i.e. tablets and phones, touch menus, etc.) and the other is built as a desktop app (mouse/keyboard menus, full screen, etc.).
I would recommend that if you have a Windows tablet or touchscreen laptop, and you use touch a lot, that you get the apps from the store. They will work much better with touch.
If you don't want the widgets, prefer mouse/keyboard, and want full functionality, install the desktop application and ignore the store.
The store is really meant for mobile apps...
Yes the LEDs are under the computer's control. But that still doesn't make those LEDs "output devices" in the general sense of the word.
A modern keyboard is both an input and output device. At a high level its primary function is to input things into the computer; however, the USB HID communications are bi-directional communications, there is both Input and Output.
The computer can set the state of LEDs and some other features of the keyboard.
In some cases, the computer can upgrade the firmware on the Keyboard which definitely requires sending output.
Yes, but each of these functions have nothing to do with reading or viewing data, they are all about changing the properties of the device itself (i.e. firmware, indicators, etc.) If this was the definition then anything with a power indicator and power button would be considered an I/O device. But that's not how we define an Output device. An I/O device is all about data, which has nothing to do with the device state.
So, by your definition a monitor is not an output device, because "in the general sense of the word, you won't be storing or sending data to another standard device" with it. OK, whatever.
Um, you're deliberately misreading his post. He was talking about the keyboard. The screen at one point was a pure output device where data is stored for the viewer, however brief. That being said, even when the test was written there were monitors with light pens that could be used as input devices, much like touch screens today.
As for keyboards, indicator lights are not considered output as they have nothing to do with reading data, they are purely an indicator function, much like a power light. If you still don't get it, check out the Wikipedia entry for an output device. They have a good explanation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Used to eat it all the time growing up in New Brunswick. Never knew it was considered a "super food", whatever that really means...
Who knew that it could be genetically altered to taste like bacon when fried...
Interestingly you don't mention how much harder bad weather conditions make driving for human drivers, as well. There is a reason that many more than usual accidents happen when the weather is bad, when it's snowing, late at night (sleepy drivers - never heard about a robot getting sleepy), or when the roads are bad and human drivers think they know it all and can continue at top speeds.
Actually, it always seems like many more than usual accidents happy the first two weeks of the snowy road season, and then people adjust to it.
I suspect that driverless cars would adjust quicker and you'd get better results than human drivers.
Nonetheless, the point that driverless cars need to be tested and verified in these conditions before being approved for general use is valid, though probably obvious.
It may be fairly obvious but I'm thinking that it will be a much harder problem to solve and will take longer than people think.
This is one instance where the market can really help. Insurance for these autonomous cars will be lower than manual cars, as they are in fewer accidents. That will encourage their uptake. Of course there will be a time where manual driving will be outlawed, and if you really like driving so much then, take it to the race track and don't let your hobby endanger people who are merely trying to live their lives.
When self-driving cars can negotiate in bad weather conditions (i.e. ice, snow, slush, etc.), that's when I'll buy into your future. There is a reason why Google chose relatively warm, dry areas with typically good weather. Bad weather and poor roads makes things 100x harder for self-driving cars. Not to mention the ability to handle out of ordinary conditions or events. Figure these out, then get back to me about giving up manual driving. Until then, it's a mote point....
Oh, and I forgot to mention that they need to be able to tow things, like boats... Towing is the last thing on Google's mind...
This is one instance where the market can really help. Insurance for these autonomous cars will be lower than manual cars, as they are in fewer accidents. That will encourage their uptake. Of course there will be a time where manual driving will be outlawed, and if you really like driving so much then, take it to the race track and don't let your hobby endanger people who are merely trying to live their lives.
When self-driving cars can negotiate in bad weather conditions (i.e. ice, snow, slush, etc.), that's when I'll buy into your future. There is a reason why Google chose relatively warm, dry areas with typically good weather. Bad weather and poor roads makes things 100x harder for self-driving cars. Not to mention the ability to handle out of ordinary conditions or events. Figure these out, then get back to me about giving up manual driving. Until then, it's a mote point....
Sorry, but I'm not interested. I'm a huge Commodore fanboy, but the logo isn't even in colour. If you're going to try to cash in on the trademark you bought, at least do it right.
I'll stick with running VICE and UAE on my openpandora, thanks. It has a keyboard, which makes it awesome at emulating computers with keyboards.
The C64 logo might have been in color but the Commodore PET logo was not...
So, what your really saying is that they are currently stuck in the netherlands, looking for a way out...
Yes, you could go through the trouble of setting up VPN, etc. and it would work. But VPN connections can be tricky if you don't know what you are doing.
Personally, I've been using Teamviewer (Free for private use) for remote control. They have Windows, MAC, UNIX, and mobile clients. You do have to know the password on the client that you are connecting to and I believe that you can set it to a permanent one, but I've never needed to. I just get my Dad to read the 4 or 5 digit random number back to me. I believe that you can set it up to be always-on if you buy a license.
https://www.teamviewer.com/en/...
As for monitoring your kid's Internet access, it isn't going to work. He'll quickly find out that Grandpa's computer has access to everything... (grin)
The easiest thing to do is install a monitoring program on his computer and buy a 802.11ac router for home and a router for grandpa that has built-in Parental Controls. You could then check the program logs on your kid's computer and the logs on the router.
Unless you really have your heart set on learning how to configure VPNs and understand IP networking, it's just not worth it for Remote Control and Parental Monitoring.
However, if you also plan to use the link for backups between their home and yours then it might make sense as backup services like Carbonite can be costly. In that case, the Meraki solution proposed by a previous commenter would be a good place to start.
A front pants pocket? Who keeps their phone in a front pants pocket?
I keep my wallet in my front pocket, same with my cell phone. Never could stand sitting on stuff in my back pockets.
Too many internet pages rely on Flash for video and advertisements... and,as much as we hate them, advertisements means money...
I'm not saying that progress isn't being made. Youtube dropped Flash this year and is now using HTML5 as the default for video, but that doesn't fix legacy videos.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1...
My thought is that Flash will be around for another 3 to 5 years. The quoted "18 months" is just wishful thinking....
Mythbusters to the rescue...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In trains and busses you look at other people.
True... but... There is usually an aisle between you and the person that you are facing. You aren't literally 12" from their face. It would be more like standing face to face on a crowded subway train for 3 to 6 hours. For most people it's exhausting enough to be that close to someone you don't know for the 15 to 20 minutes to get to your stop, let alone hours....
Plus, just imagine if your facing someone who is coughing and sneezing. Yes, you're close enough on a plane that it's still likely that you would get sick, but at least they aren't sneezing directly into your face.
I banned Powerpoint presentations. Saves huge amounts of time, and server space. I don't have figures to support it, but I strongly believe it raises moral and stops a decline in general intelligence.
(grin)
Actually, the problem isn't Powerpoint or presentations. The problem is people who do not know how to create or give good presentations.
Most boring presentations fall into the following categories:
1. a presentation that you are forced to attend but that has no direct relevance to you, your job, etc.
2. a presentation with too many details for the time slot. The Presenter speed reads the presentation
3. a presentation where the presenter just reads the presentation. There are no explanations and no expansion on what appears on the slides. You could have just read the presentation in 10 minutes and gotten the same information.
4. a presentation that has not been tailored to the audience.
If you have ever watched a Ted Talk presentation, you will see that they use Powerpoint. The difference is that you are interested in the topic, the presenter is passionate about the topic and tells a story, and the slides include just the major points, they don't go into too much detail.
Oh... and banning Powerpoint just wouldn't work... They would just use Word or, horrors, Excel.... (grin)
Maybe we should get rid of *all* formal credentials? Get rid of all licenses, and degrees, along with certs.
A drivers license does not prove you know how to drive. A teaching credential does not prove you are a competent teacher. Does a college degree prove you even know how to read?
And so on, right down the line.
Or, maybe a more intelligent way to look at is: a credential is what it is. It prove you know enough about something to pass the test. No test is ever perfect.
Tech credentials leave a lot to be desired. But, from my experience they are far superior to interview test questions. I have had interview tests from interviewers who were dead wrong. I have had interviewers ask questions that were insane. Besides, what if the interviewing does not like you? Maybe the interviewer does not like your race, gender, nationality, or age - in that case you would be sure to fail. At least certs have a certain objectivity.
A drivers license, or even the drivers test, doesn't prove that you are a good driver. But it does prove that you know the rules of the road, something that most wouldn't study unless they were forced to. I'd rather have people driving knowing the rules of the road even if they aren't the best of drivers.
What works at Google is not necessarily applicable in the rest of the world. Perhaps people with certifications tend not to succeed at Google. That does not mean that they don't succeed elsewhere. It only means they didn't succeed at Google - nothing more. In fact there are many professions where you won't even get considered for an interview without a certification.
That is soooo right... A manager at my sister's office decided to follow a process that he read about Google using. That process was to have a communal garbage can in an office area and have individual recycle bins under each desk. The theory was that having the recycle bin nearby meant that people would recycle more and only make the trip to the garbage can when they had too. The problem is that where my sister worked, they don't have a cafeteria with free food (Google does) and a lot of people bring their own food to the office for lunch. So, you can just imagine some of the smells....
Proof that what works at one company doesn't always work at another.